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Pub Year	Map Maker	Pub Place	Map Title	Map Price (USD)	Picture
1825	Buchon, Jean Alexander	Paris	Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique de Mexique	Mexico	Picture

An engraved map, with hand colored wash

Map Size: 12 1/4 inches X 15 1/4 inches

Map Type: Atlas

North America

This map is from Alexander Buchon's Atlas Géographique des Deux Amériques. Buchon copied and translated Carey & Lea's famous 1822 atlas, A Complete Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas . . . into French. The maps for Buchon's atlas were re-engraved and printed on larger and heavier paper.

In this fine map, Mexico is pictured at about the time it became an independant Republic. It encompasses the province of Texas, and California. Many of the locations of the frontier Spanish Presidios are identified.

References: A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress, 1176, Phillips, P.L, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1909; Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, Volume 1 Page 204 Buchon, Jean Alexander, Scott, Valerie, Map Collector Publications, Tring, Hertz, England, 1999